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Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it. Oh sure, everyone's in favor of privacy in the same way that they're in favor of Mom and apple pie, but exactly how software should preserve privacy is a more controversial issue. Were they aware of the trade-offs involved, I'm not so sure how committed people would be. The main industry initiative facilitating user privacy is the W3C initiative, Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P). P3P provides a way for site authors to make their privacy policies

P3P (Privacy Preferences Platform) was established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide internet users with a sense of privacy when surfing the internet. W3C is the official web standards body, which essentially attempts to bring law and order to the Internet. P3P started to allay consumer concern about the amount of data collected by web sites. The idea is that any site gathering information about its users should state why it wants the information, and how long information will be retained for. For example: "We are monitoring these